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Yelan
"if you put too many people together they start shooting each other!!" that just sounds like usamerican projection, but okay
also: western lib: *sees an apartment building in a socialist country*
western lib: is this a gulag??
i love the 'imagine the energy consumed by this building' because like. it's actually very clear and obvious that a building of many apartments will require less energy than the same number of detached houses, since it shares services and thermal inertia
imagine going to visit so many of your friends and they're like only a few floors away or maybe right next door
imagine the tenant's union that this kind of place can form 😍
The ideal living arrangement, according to the people on this post lmao
If you like this idea then go live there, go live that dream.
I personally will live like a human instead of a lab rat, I want to be able to go outside and touch grass and listen to the wind blow through the trees.
Usamericans are so suburbpoisoned they don't realize you can just. Walk out of an apartment building. You aren't stuck inside.
Say "American" challenge impossible
basically public masturbation and should be treated as such
"You can just walk out" yes but its a long way down, and all your friends, food, and entertainments are "in".
You do realize there's a whole ass city outside the building, don't you? This isn't in the middle of nowhere, this is in Hangzhou, one of the biggest cities in China.
I know but the closest most convenient place is inside.
And the closest most convenient place in a US suburb is a half hours drive away. Here you can just take the stairs or an elevator and you're outside the building and in the middle of the city already (plus with buildings like this, shops are usually on the ground floor anyway)
I was going to just let the yankees screeching on this post float by, but this is a new level of Yankee Brain, because I know the USA has mixed purpose structures with stores on the ground floor and apartments above it (I lived in one, even). I know that they know what a residential skyscraper is. So what's not clicking, other than the fact that this is in China? If rightoids screeching about a country having all the same stuff they have in their home coountry allow their brain to rot this hard at mere mention of a foreign country, then I hope they follow their leader and deepthroat a gun because there's no hope for them.
……… seeing people in my notes who seem to believe the only way workers could possibly be exploited is if they are not unionized, so obviously the solution that will automatically fix the problem is to form a union……………… hm.
the whole point of a union is it allows workers a mechanism for collective bargaining but that’s the thing. you still gotta do the bargaining!!! and after the contracts are in place you KNOW the bosses are still going to exploit their workers to the greatest extent they possibly can. people seem to think that forming a union is the end goal and while yes it is hugely important it is still literally just the first step in a CONSTANT neverending battle for workers’ rights
Fundamentally, unions can never end the exploitation of workers.
Unions exist within, and implicitly accept, the system of waged labour under capitalism. The trade union is an organisation that mediates between workers and their bosses, and whose existence is premised on that continued relationship. But waged labour is inherently exploitative - not just ‘it leads to exploitation’, or 'it can be abused’, it *is* exploitation, in and of itself. The worker that produces a thousand dollars worth of profit in a day is only paid a hundred - for the hours it took them to produce that extra $900, they were effectively working for free. This isn’t some instance of wage theft by the individual capitalist, this is the fair, market rate for human labour-power sold to the capitalist.
Trade-union organising *is* a “constant neverending battle for workers’ rights”, because its battleground is one that presupposes the total victory of the capitalist class. However, a final victory in the struggle for workers’ rights *is* possible, even if unions themselves are insufficient to bring it about. Political organising, the formation of workers’ political parties, and the complete replacement of the capitalist state by a workers’ state, one bringing together organised workplaces, can do away with the system of waged labour inherent to capitalism. Union organisation is instrumental in this, and this political organisation in turn helps overcome the flaws of trade-union organising, which can be prone to nationalism, reaction, and protectionism - lest we forget US-American unions’ history of refusing black workers.
At the end of the day, bargaining is not enough. Mutual aid, redistributing our burden between us, defensive action, they are not enough. At the end of the day, the workers need to impose their will on the capitalists, not the other way around - and end the system of exploitation once and for all.
